Stories for June 2004

An overwhelming majority of Peruvians given the stagnant political situation face a yet unresolved dilemma: whether to anticipate elections or declare the presidential office vacant, according to the latest opinion polls published this Sunday.

Almost half the British population is against the new European Union charter and Primer Minister Tony Blair's decision to sign the constitution, according to opinion polls published this Sunday in the Sunday Times.

Brazilian president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva said this Sunday that we haven't advanced as fast as I'd liked to, but for the first time we have sustainable economic growth with reasonable economic stability.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met privately with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Venezuelan telecommunications tycoon Gustavo Cisneros, the Carter Centre reported this Sunday. Mr. Carter pushed for the meeting, held in Caracas on Friday, the centre confirmed after the news was leaked to the press over the weekend.

Rescue brigades found the bodies of yet two more Argentine miners which remained reported as disappeared in the recent fire and collapse of several galleries at the Rio Turbio coal mine in southern Argentine Patagonia.

Mexico's new energy secretary, Fernando Elizondo, says his country may increase oil exports by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) later in the year to help stabilize international prices Mexico agrees with the policy of stabilizing international prices, and so will contribute, within the limits of its production capacity, to the goal of increasing global production so as to achieve stability, Elizondo told the press.